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Bug 1467402

Summary:	rotatelogs: creation of zombie processes when -p is used
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Hung <hpham>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Luboš Uhliarik <luhliari>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Maryna Nalbandian <mnalband>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	7.3	CC:	bnater, dmasirka, jhouska, jkejda, jorton, luhliari
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Patch, ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	httpd-2.4.6-70.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, when the ErrorLog directive used the rotatelogs command with the "-p" option, rotatelogs created zombie processes for the program specified with the "-p" option. This bug has been fixed, and zombie processes are no longer created in the described situation.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	1498020 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-04-10 14:45:22 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1403212, 1420851, 1465904, 1466370, 1473612, 1498020

Description Hung 2017-07-03 16:43:37 UTC

Description of problem: Rotatelogs creates zombie processes for program specified in -p flag


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.4.6-45.el7_3.4.x86_64


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
Change ErrorLog directive to use rotatelogs command with -p flag. For example:

  ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs -l -p /bin/gzip -f -L /var/log/httpd/error_log /tmp/error%h 100B"


Actual results: Results in defunct/zombie gzip process

Additional info: 
The problem is a duplicate to the one reported in RHEL 6 httpd : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401694

The problem appears to be addressed in Apache 2.4.10 :
*) rotatelogs: Avoid creation of zombie processes when -p is used on
Unix platforms. [Joe Orton]
http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4.10

Comment 4 Jan Houska 2017-07-19 14:14:48 UTC

The same problem reported in 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451333.  It seems that this bug is a duplicate.

Comment 8 Luboš Uhliarik 2017-10-03 08:35:15 UTC

*** Bug 1451333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 14:45:22 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0826